Frank Gilfeather: There’s no masking the issues over indy-ref call
Okay, I admit it. I haven’t taken this Covid business seriously enough; until now.
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Frank Gilfeather: Chaos and confusion the only consistency in Covid rules
A member of Parliament has been arrested, partygoers around the country have been heavily fined and even two mountaineers were penalised by the plods – all for breaking Covid restrictions.
Frank Gilfeather: Don’t fret, Nicola’s on the case at her Covid lectern
It's that time of year again when columnists wish their readers – even those who can’t quite come to terms that the writer’s opinions may differ from theirs – a Merry Christmas.
Frank Gilfeather: Are the cracks beginning to show from our leader Nicola Sturgeon?
Is Nicola Sturgeon’s star, and with it support for the SNP, on the wane?
Frank Gilfeather: Actors will soon not be the only people ‘resting’
I’ve always thought acting was quite a strange, precarious, but fun way to earn a living.
Frank Gilfeather: Our last chance to avoid relegation over Covid-19
Phew! That was a narrow escape.
Frank Gilfeather: Sir Geoff Hurst ahead of game in backing kids’ header ban
Had he been around today, Noel Coward might have had a new version of his song, Don’t Put Your Daughter on the Stage, Mrs Worthington.
Frank Gilfeather: Oh the joys of Scotland’s victory… or maybe not
It has been a near-catastrophic last few days in my house, what with the threat of the TV being removed after I dared to smile when Scotland beat Serbia to qualify for the European football championship next year.
Frank Gilfeather: No seamless transition back to the old normal
Are we heading for a happy ending to the Covid-19 story?
Frank Gilfeather: Golf course sycophants who swung in for Trump
Dear Mr President, as you will now forever be known. You have played a blinder in your role as the leader of the free world, with your finger on the pulse – not to say the red button – of global affairs.
Frank Gilfeather: Was Willie Young’s social media post offensive or crime against comedy?
Remember the Aberdeen nine? It’s just become 10.
Frank Gilfeather: She’s at her lectern daily – missing the big picture
I can see the posters: “Not coming to a town near you anytime soon: first minister super-glued to Covid lectern".
Frank Gilfeather: Aberdonians are best off in the UK… well that’s rich
If you're a working man or woman, resident in Aberdeen and reading this, contain yourself for a couple of minutes when I inform you that employees in the Granite City are awash with dosh.
Frank Gilfeather: Sturgeon hails free press as gaze turns on husband
Nicola Sturgeon has been praising the press this week, presumably through gritted teeth.
Frank Gilfeather: McLeish off target with appeal on football clubs
First, the stark, eye-popping fact: almost 100,000 people in Scotland could lose their jobs by the end of the year as the Covid crisis bites more deeply.
Frank Gilfeather: An open letter to Ms Sturgeon on curfew for bars and visit ban
Dear First Minister. I feel your pain. Those stiletto heels.
Frank Gilfeather: The Beeb’s obsession with young audience that really isn’t there
SUE Barker has confessed she had to be crow-barred out of the presenter’s seat of A Question of Sport and admitted she would not have gone voluntarily.
Frank Gilfeather: Schoolboy fisticuffs and a fantasy about a Nobel Peace Prize
It has been a peacekeeping week, though not on the scale that would have taxed Kofi Annan.
Frank Gilfeather: Another referendum on independence: Are ye aff yer heid, Nicola?
We must assume Nicola Sturgeon has forgotten to check Experian before setting course towards another independence referendum.
Frank Gilfeather: Nessie and Narcissus meet Bigfoot and bull-in-a-china-shop Boris
Donald Trump Jr, eyes superglued to the autocue, cracked a joke at the Republican Party convention along the lines that his dad’s opponent in November’s US presidential election – Joe Biden – is like the Loch Ness Monster; he pops his head up every now and again to run for president.
Frank Gilfeather: We must act to stop an exodus of talent from the north-east
What faces Aberdeen and the north-east post-Covid-19?
Frank Gilfeather: A+ for incompetence for minister Swinney after exams blunder
When Nicola Sturgeon dished out yellow cards like some kind of political referee, she should have practised on her Education Secretary John Swinney.
Frank Gilfeather: Local lockdown not coming as a surprise after nightlife scenes
Should we have been surprised at the cluster of cases of Covid-19 at an Aberdeen bar?
Frank Gilfeather: Gloves are truly off in BoJo’s campaign to keep Scotland in UK
Protective ones may have been on as Boris Johnson held a crab in each hand for a photo opportunity in Orkney, but the gloves are well and truly off in his campaign to keep Scotland in the UK.
Frank Gilfeather: Tone-deaf divas take me back to my days as a rock ‘n’ roll star
Qualified though I am, there will be no application from me to participate in a new BBC TV show which needs bad singers.
Frank Gilfeather: A piggy-back from Big Jack, lengthy interview and ‘Irish champagne’
In my TV days I once called Jack Charlton with an invitation to be the subject of a lengthy interview on his career as a Leeds United and England defender.
Frank Gilfeather: New road layouts will take some getting used to
It's still the talk of the town. Or should that be the walk of the town?
Frank Gilfeather: Student cyclist rings up the miles, others don’t even have bells
We must assume Kleon Papadimitriou has the backside of a rhino – not in size, of course – but in toughness.
Frank Gilfeather: Community talk a bit transparent when it’s said by big business
I have never fully appreciated the need for pubs, probably because my visits to them have been infrequent; rare, some might say.
Frank Gilfeather: Will council officials catch on and please just leave things alone
It was JD Salinger, in The Catcher In The Rye, who wrote: “Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.”